![]() I’m going to choose one to review in detail. ![]() Here you can see all the services installed on your system, as well as their description, status, and more. To access the services on Windows, simply search for the Services app on the Start Menu. They perform many important tasks, such as maintaining our network connection, providing printing functions, and logging important system events. A service is a process that runs in the background on Windows, and is usually started and managed by the operating system. On Windows, you’ll notice that even though we aren’t running any programs, there are still dozens of processes running in the background. You can also replace the built-in Task Manager with Process Explorer if you so choose. Using Sysinternals, you can see additional details about each process running on a computer. You can download it using the link in the resources below this video. You can access it quickly by right-clicking on an open area of the taskbar, or by using the classic CTRL+ ALT+ DEL key combination.Īnother tool I recommend is Process Explorer, part of the Microsoft Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. ![]() It has been present in Windows since the early days, and gives lots of information about the processes running on a system. First, built-in to Windows is the Task Manager. ![]() To examine processes on Windows, there are a couple of tools available. In this way, if you have multiple copies of the same program running, each one will have a different PID. Much like the user accounts and groups, each running process is given an identifier. The most notable is the PID or process identifier. The operating system stores a few important pieces of information about each process. So, the more processes you run, the slower your computer may seem as you consume more of the available resources. As a system administrator, the most important thing to keep in mind is that each process running on a computer will consume the system’s resources, either the available memory or CPU time. Within each process, there can be multiple threads of execution running concurrently. Each program running on an operating system is called a process. Let’s take a look at how Windows interacts with programs.
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